RICHARD LOPEZ

Artist's Biography

â€¢ Music Theoryâ€¢ How to Make and Read Chord Progressionsâ€¢ Jazz Improvisationâ€¢ Brass Instrumentsâ€¢ Music Ensemble Coaching

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â€¢ Live Music Entertainmentâ€¢ Music Psychologyâ€¢ Music Meditationâ€¢ Music Thanatology

Learn music theory, how to read chord progressions and play jazz improvisation for all instruments. I teach kids to adults. I specialize in brass instruments instruction. Contact me, Richard Lopez at olyvillage@gmail.com for more info.

Richard got his start in the Denver Public Schools music program, playing trombone in such groups as the prestigious C.E.C. Honor Jazz Combo and the Colorado All-State Jazz Ensemble. As a teenager he played with jazz contemporaries Greg Gispert, Brad Leali and Javon Jackson and studied jazz under the direction of trombonist Jerry Barnett, jazz educator Dr. Willie Hill (IAJE) and jazz pianist Neil Bridge. Above all the great musical influences that Richard had over his childhood, his father, Lou Lopez (1927 to 1999), who actively played the tenor sax, flute and bass, carried an important role along with tons of encouragement from his mother, Irene Lopez (Denver, CO). After high school, Richard received a music scholarship to study music at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and studied under the teaching of Professor Frank Gagliardi and renowned world trombonist Bobby Scann.

During the early-mid eighties, one of his greatest experiences as a young and up-coming musician was going to the Las Vegas Musician\'s Union on weekend nights until the early morning hours and listening and playing with the greatest jazz musicians in the world.

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